Alasdair Gray  

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Alasdair Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), written over almost 30 years, was described by The Guardian as "one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction."

Works

Novels

• Lanark (1981) Template:ISBN
• 1982, Janine (1984) Template:ISBN
• The Fall of Kelvin Walker (1985)
• Something Leather (1990) Template:ISBN
• McGrotty and Ludmilla (1990) Template:ISBN
• Poor Things (1992) Template:ISBN
• A History Maker (1994)
• Mavis Belfrage (1996) Template:ISBN
• Old Men In Love (2007) Template:ISBN

Short stories

• Unlikely Stories, Mostly 26 September 1984; Canongate Books Template:ISBN
• Lean Tales (1985) (with James Kelman and Agnes Owens); Vintage, 1995, Template:ISBN
• Ten Tales Tall & True (1993) Template:ISBN
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Poetry

• Old Negatives (1989) Template:ISBN
• Sixteen Occasional Poems (2000)
• Collected Verse (2010) Template:ISBN

Translations

• Hell: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse (2018) Template:ISBN
• Purgatory: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Two Englished in Prosaic Verse (2019) Template:ISBN

Theatre

• Dialogue - A Duet (1971)
• The Loss of the Golden Silence
• Homeward Bound: A Trio for Female Chauvinists (1973)
• Sam Lang and Miss Watson: A One Act Sexual Comedy In Four Scenes (1973)
• McGrotty and Ludmilla (1986)
• Working Legs: A Play for Those Without Them (1997)
• Goodbye Jimmy (2006)
• Fleck (2008)
• A Gray Play Book (2009)

Television

• Dialogue - A Duet (1972)
• Martin (1972)
• Today and Yesterday (1975)<ref>{{

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Radio

• Dialogue: A Duet (1969)
• The Loss of the Golden Silence

As illustrator

• Songs of Scotland (Author, Wilma Patterson) (1996)